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Author : László Dobszay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Musicological Studies written by László Dobszay and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roman Hankeln
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Political Plainchant? written by Roman Hankeln and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work on the present book began in autumn 2005 with a small conference at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Trondheim, Norway
Author : Katharine Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317020286
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Plainchant in fin-de-siècle France written by Katharine Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells three inter-related stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn of the twentieth century and highlight the value of liturgical music history to our understanding of French government anticlericalism. It offers at once a new history of the rise of the Benedictines of Solesmes to official dominance over Catholic editions of plainchant worldwide, a new optic on the French liturgical publishing industry during a period of international crisis for the publication of plainchant notation, and an exploration of how, both despite and because of official hostility, French Catholics could bend Republican anticlericalism at the highest level to their own ends. The narrative relates how Auguste Pécoul, a former French diplomat and Benedictine novice, masterminded an undercover campaign to aid the Gregorian agenda of the Solesmes monks via French government intervention at the Vatican. His vehicle: trades unionists from within the book industry, whom he mobilized into nationalist protest against Vatican attempts to enshrine a single, contested, and German, version of the musical text as canon law. Yet the political scheming necessitated by Pécoul’s double involvement with Solesmes and the print unions almost spun out of control as his Benedictine contacts struggled with internal division and anticlerical persecution. The results are as musicologically significant for the study of Solesmes as they are instructive for the study of Church-State relations.
Author : Perley Orman Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Political Parties and Practical Politics written by Perley Orman Ray and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl Baker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452007799
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Heroes & Hypocrites written by Earl Baker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of poems about politics and political life in America, Earl Baker tells the reader how our system of democracy really works in practice. Written to entertain as well as inform, it reveals how people in politics think and feel, what motivates them, and what makes our system successful despite the flaws and quirks. Taking his cue from Ogden Nash, Earl uses verse to express his thoughts with tongue-in-cheek humor, and makes some serious points as well.
Author : Charles Krauthammer
Publisher : Forum Books
ISBN 13 : 198482550X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Point of It All written by Charles Krauthammer and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful collection of the influential columnist’s most important works—featuring rare speeches, a major essay about today’s populist movements and the future of global democracy, and a new preface by the author’s son, Daniel Krauthammer “Charles will be remembered as one of the greatest public intellects of his generation.”—John McCain In his decades of work as America’s preeminent political commentator, whether writing about statecraft and foreign policy or reflecting on more esoteric topics such as baseball, spaceflight and medical ethics, Charles Krauthammer elevated the opinion column to a form of art. This collection features the columns, speeches and unpublished writings that showcase the best of his original thought and his last, enduring words on the state of American politics, the nature of liberal democracy and the course of world history. The book also includes a deeply personal section offering insight into Krauthammer’s beliefs about what mattered most to him: friendship, family and the principles he lived by. The Point of It All is a timely demonstration of what made Charles Krauthammer the most celebrated American columnist and political thinker of his generation, a revealing look at the man behind the words and a lasting testament to his belief that anyone with an open and honest mind can grapple deeply with the most urgent questions in politics and in life.
Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199945950
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The American Lie written by Benjamin Ginsberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going all the way back to the time of George Washington, much of what we see and hear in the political world consists of lies and deceptions. Despite assurances to the contrary, politics is not about truth, justice, and principle. It is about money, power, and status. As astute political commentator Ben Ginsberg convincingly demonstrates, politicians habitually lie, pretending to fight for principles, in order to conceal their true selfish motives. Citizens who need the frequent injunctions to participate in politics and abjure political cynicism are likely to be duped into contributing their tax dollars and even their lives for dubious purposes. Most individuals gain little from political participation. Participants are the foot soldiers of political warfare, but even if their side is victorious, they receive few of the spoils of war. Thus, in this new political season, Ginsberg encourages citizens to think outside the (ballot) box, finding new ways to act on behalf of their interests and the public good. But if they do vote, their motto should be when in doubt vote them out. The elections of 2008 are a good time to begin.
Author : Rick Shenkman
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465012574
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Just How Stupid Are We? written by Rick Shenkman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics. But what exactly? Democrats blame Republicans and Republicans blame Democrats. Greedy corporate executives, rogue journalists, faulty voting machines, irresponsible defense contractors-we blame them, too. The only thing everyone seems to agree on, in fact, is that the American people are entirely blameless. In Just How Stupid Are We?, best-selling historian and renowned myth-buster Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people. The hard truth is that American democracy is more direct than ever-but voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power. Americans are paying less and less attention to politics at a time when they need to pay much more: Television has dumbed politics down to the basest possible level, while the real workings of politics have become vastly more complicated. Shenkman offers concrete proposals for reforming our institutions-the government, the media, civic organizations, political parties-to make them work better for the American people. But first, Shenkman argues, we must reform ourselves.
Author : Thomas J. Volgy
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520862
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Politics in the Trenches written by Thomas J. Volgy and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Politics in the Trenches, Volgy shows what really happens behind the scenes of government. He contrasts perception with reality regarding the rewards and perks of office. He examines the process of experimentation in the political laboratory and shows how the news media distort it. He provides a case study of homelessness to illustrate the system's constraints. And he offers a chapter on a typical week in office that will be an eye-opener for most readers."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Thomas E. Patterson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307761495
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Out of Order written by Thomas E. Patterson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are our politicians almost universally perceived as liars? What made candidate Bill Clinton's draft record more newsworthy than his policy statements? How did George Bush's masculinity, Ronald Reagan's theatrics with a microphone, and Walter Mondale's appropriation of a Wendy's hamburger ad make or break their presidential campaigns? Ever since Watergate, says Thomas E. Patterson, the road to the presidency has led through the newsrooms, which in turn impose their own values on American politics. The results are campaigns that resemble inquisitions or contests in which the candidates' game plans are considered more important than their goals. Lucid and aphoristic, historically informed and as timely as a satellite feed, Out of Order mounts a devastating inquest into the press's hijacking of the campaign process -- and shows what citizens and legislators can do to win it back.
Author : Walter Bruno Korschek
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604942789
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Love My Country, Loathe My Government written by Walter Bruno Korschek and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter "Bruno" Korschek is not a famous politician, a noted journalist, or distinguished political scholar. He is an ordinary American who is disturbed by the continuous erosion of freedom in the United States. This erosion has been caused and encouraged by the American political class. Regardless of party affiliation, the political class consists of career politicians whose only goal is to become elected and then stay elected. They do whatever it takes to remain in office, even if it reduces our individual freedoms as spelled out in the United States Constitution. Some examples of their actions include: Violating our right to privacy through the Patriot Act Increasing the burden of taxation Controlling and managing election processes Turning one group of Americans against another for their own political purposes In Love My Country, Loathe My Government, Korschek lays out a straightforward plan that involves fifty steps needed to restore lost freedom in America. He exposes the myths about government-myths that the political class needs in place to stay in power. Time is running out. The need to act is now before more freedoms are lost.This book sets up a citizen-based action plan to implement the fifty steps at the grassroots level. About the Author Walter "Bruno" Korschek earned a BS in mathematics from the University of Delaware in 1975 and a MS in statistics from the University of Delaware in 1976. He had a twenty-two-year career with a major telecommunications corporation and is founder and owner of a successful family business.
Author : Amy Fried
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023155124X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book At War with Government written by Amy Fried and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government, the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the postwar era conservative leaders have deliberately and strategically undermined faith in the political system for partisan aims. Fried and Harris detail how conservatives have sown distrust to build organizations, win elections, shift power toward institutions that they control, and secure policy victories. They trace this strategy from the Nixon and Reagan years through Gingrich’s Contract with America, the Tea Party, and Donald Trump’s rise and presidency. Conservatives have promoted a political identity opposed to domestic state action, used racial messages to undermine unity, and cultivated cynicism to build and bolster coalitions. Once in power, they have defunded public services unless they help their constituencies and rolled back regulations, perversely proving the failure of government. Fried and Harris draw on archival sources to document how conservative elites have strategized behind the scenes. With a powerful diagnosis of our polarized era, At War with Government also proposes how we might rebuild trust in government by countering the strategies conservatives have used to weaken it.
Author : Alan Wolfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655516X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Petulance written by Alan Wolfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he’s complaining about or whom he’s attacking, a second question comes hard on the heels of the first: How on earth do we get out of this? Alan Wolfe has an answer. In The Politics of Petulance he argues that the core of our problem isn’t Trump himself—it’s that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. It’s in an abdication of valuing the character of would-be leaders; it’s in a failure to acknowledge, even welcome the complexity of government and society; and it’s in a loss of the ability to be skeptical without being suspicious. In 2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like children being offered a lunch of Pop Rocks and Coke, they reflexively—and mindlessly—accepted. The good news, such as it is, is that we’ve been here before. Wolfe reminds us that we know how to grow up and face down Trump and other demagogues. Wolfe reinvigorates the tradition of public engagement exemplified by midcentury intellectuals such as Richard Hofstadter, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling—and he draws lessons from their battles with McCarthyism and conspiratorial paranoia. Wolfe mounts a powerful case that we can learn from them to forge a new path for political intervention today. Wolfe has been thinking and writing about American life and politics for decades. He sees this moment as one of real risk. But he’s not throwing up his hands; he’s bracing us. We’ve faced demagogues before. We can find the intellectual maturity to fight back. Yes we can.
Author : Glenn C. Altschuler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691089868
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rude Republic written by Glenn C. Altschuler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this look at Americans and their politics, the authors argue for a more complex understanding of the space occupied by politics in 19th-century American society and culture.
Author : Dick Morris
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061750999
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Off with Their Heads written by Dick Morris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to the unity that so blessed America after 9/11? Where did our sense of determination go? Our political, journalistic, and cultural leaders have mounted a campaign to oppose and impede the war on terror that seemed so vital in that rare moment of clarity. This book is my personal cri du coeur about deception in politics, journalism, and business—especially when it stops us from following through on the work 9/11 has left for us all to do. This book takes on some pretty sacred cows, but it's about time they became fair game. —from the Introduction Are you appalled by the antiwar tone the news media has taken since the war on terror began—especially "objective" news outlets like the New York Times and the network news? Are you wondering when liberal celebrities like Barbara Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon suddenly became geopolitical oracles whose advice we're supposed to value above the wisdom of tenured experts? Are you at a loss to decide who has betrayed us more outrageously: the French who abandoned us in our time of need, or our own elected officials, who tapped our 401(k) savings and the tobacco-settlement windfall with equal abandon? In Off with Their Heads, syndicated columnist and Fox News Cannel political analyst Dick Morris points an accusing finger at the many ways the public has been lied to and misled, pickpocketed and endangered. Whether it's Bill Clinton, who ignored mounting evidence of impending terrorist catastrophe throughout the 1990s, or the members of Congress, who quietly sold our democracy down the river in exchange for lifetime incumbency, Morris rips the cover off the cowardly and duplicitous figures who have sacrificed America's interests for their own. From private corruption to public treachery, even longtime political buffs will marvel at the astonishing behavior Morris reveals at every level of society—and at how it threatens to compromise the American way of life.
Author : E.J. Dionne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128081
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Why Americans Hate Politics written by E.J. Dionne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of his national bestseller, E. J. Dionne brings up to date his influential proposals for a politics that can and must find a balance between rights and obligations, between responsibility and compassion. All over the United States, Americans are deserting the political process. Why? In this national bestseller, one of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices, " making it impossible for politicians to solve problems, and alienating voters in the process. Now with a new afterword discussing the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and the 1992 presidential election, Dionne explores what has gone wrong with the American system and offers a back-to-basics approach to politics designed to respond to the anger of America's restive majority. From the New, Updated Introduction: "At the heart of Why Americans Hate Politics is the view that ideas shape politics far more than most accounts of public life usually allow. I believe ideas matter not only to elites and intellectuals, but also to rank and file voters. Indeed, I often think that the rank and file see the importance of ideas more clearly than the elites, who often find themselves surprised by the rise of the movements that arise from the bottom up and shape our politics."
Author : Clyde Coughenour
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426930623
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Anyone That Works for a Living and Votes Republican Is an Idiot written by Clyde Coughenour and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone Th at Works for a Living and Votes Republican Is an Idiot provides an overview of the political plight of the U.S. worker, primarily over the last century. It is intended for those citizens of the United States who work for a living in times of peace and war and who wear a uniform and bear arms to support the nations war efforts in times of peace and distress. The worker has little or no power individually. Because so much time must be spent earning a living and trying to survive, there is little time for investigating the big picture when it is so obscured by the media, charades, and the truth of the claims, counterclaims and professionally drafted hype disseminated during political and policy campaigns. One of the only powers remaining for workers is collective action through organizations such as unions or their own political party or their votes at the polls. Discover how the capitalist pigs and their PPP (Pig Party Prostitutes) took over the U.S. for the benefi t of the small, wealthy, worldwide aristocracy. We need a progressive workers party to salvage or restore an independent, viable American democracy and establish the middle class for We the People as intended.
